Cambridge: restorations
Cambridge: restorations
August 2
Cambridge: restorations
I have been here a little over a month. A month from tomorrow I fly back to THE HAWKE OF TUONELA in Raiatea. And two months from now I should be at sea on the final passage back to New Zealand.
I am rested, restored, and back in shape.
I worked out eight times during July, almost doubling my total for the year. While my weight has remained constant, there is a noticeable improvement in muscle tone. I don’t want to imply that I had become a wreck; but there were changes, particularly in my legs, after months at sea when I wasn’t able to walk much more than someone who is bed confined.
The growth on my leg has changed and slightly diminished. I don’t know what it is, but now doubt it is cancer. With many medical schools and famed hospitals, Boston has a high standard of medical care. It also has the longest wait to see physicians of any city in the United States. The earliest appointment I could make with my dermatologist was for this coming Thursday, when I should know more.
I am not doing much of interest: reading on the Internet; reading a book, THE TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS, about the history of science; watching the Red Sox play baseball on television--though I still also follow and root for the Cubs, who haven’t won the World Series now for a hundred years; walking around Fresh Pond every once in a while.
I’ve ordered everything I plan to take back to the boat, and everything, except for a few books, has arrived.
Since my return I’ve moved and restored this website.
And yesterday I began another restoration: that of the lost two years of the journal. Some of you may have noticed the link on the main journal page. You can also get to it here.
Now that I have the infra-structure in place, reposting the words is simple, but matching photographs to the proper entries is more difficult.
The more I work with the current, 3.0.1 version of iWeb, the more I appreciate its improvements. The original iWeb application enabled me to start this website, but some actions, such as making minor changes to a page or post, were time-consuming and cumbersome. It was this that caused me to turn to WordPress for the journal. While there are still a few improvements I’d like to see in iWeb, such as being able to make and save a template for blog posts, it is now nearly perfect for my needs. In setting up pages and links for the lost journal yesterday--while watching the White Sox beat the Yankees on television--I probably uploaded twenty or thirty times, each upload taking only a few seconds and a single click.
Reliving my life of two years ago has been amusing and illuminating for me. I don’t know that anyone else will care. But I have often found myself when writing current posts wanting to make reference to things I wrote during those years that are no longer there. Gradually they will be again.
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The photograph is of a gate that doesn’t seem to lead anywhere at Fresh Pond.
Sunday, August 2, 2009